Amsterdam Restaurants

Chinese restaurants in Amsterdam

  1. A

    Oriental City

    This huge Hong Kong-style restaurant with the requisite red lanterns is always lively. Join gaggles of local Chinese for daily dim sum (11:30 to 16:30; we like the meaty, flavoursome cha sieuw bao pork buns) and a 24-page menu (!) of classic Canto cuisine.

    reviewed

  2. B

    Nam Kee

    It won’t win any design awards, but Nam Kee is the most popular Chinese spot in town. There’s a new, fancier location at Geldersekade 117.

    reviewed

  3. C

    Wok to Walk

    Many fast-food joints in Amsterdam assume you’re too drunk or stoned to care what you’re eating. Wok to Walk, however, serves fast food fresh. Choose noodles or rice, meat or veg, and a sauce; add to a wok and stir. There are other branches, but the culinary wasteland of Leidsestraat is where you’ll need one most.

    reviewed

  4. D

    Sea Palace

    It’s a funny thing about floating Chinese restaurants: they look like tourist traps and may well be, but from Hong Kong to Holland many are admired for their good food. The Sea Palace’s three floors are busy with people, both Chinese and non, who come not just for the great views of the city from across the IJ. Even if you order dim sum from a menu instead of a cart, the shrimp in the ha kow dumplings go pop in your mouth just the same.

    reviewed